John, Can we have two concurrent connections, one each to the methods gardenhose and shadow from a single Twitter account?
Thanks, Karthik On May 10, 9:04 am, John Kalucki <jkalu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Note: TheStreamingAPI is currently under a limited alpha test, > details below. > > Multiple concurrent connections from the same account are discouraged > on theStreamingAPI. Starting on or after the afternoon of Monday, > May 11th (22:00:00 11-May-2009 UTC) the service will gently enforce > this policy. A later release will fully enforce this policy. > Subsequent connections from the same account will cause previously > established connections to be disconnected. > > In some cases, this might cause operational difficulties for > developers who are using the restricted resources. For example, a > developer's staging test might knock that developer's production / > gardenhose feed offline. Non-production uses should connect to the / > spritzer resource with a secondary account to avoid these conflicts. > We may, on a case-by-case basis, grant exceptions to this policy as we > work through the alpha test. We will attempt to balance ease-of-use, > resource consumption and abuse prevention. > > -John Kalucki - Services, Twitter Inc.http://twitter.com/jkalucki > > Important Alpha Test Note: > TheStreamingAPI (aka Hosebird) is currently under an alpha test. All > developers using theStreamingAPI must tolerate possible unannounced > and extended periods of unavailability, especially during off-hours, > Pacific Time. New features, resources and policies are being deployed > on very little, if any, notice. Any developer may experiment with the > unrestricted resources and provide feedback via this list. Access to > restricted resources is extremely limited and is only granted on a > case-by-case basis after acceptance of an additional terms of service > document. Documentation is > available:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation.